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New England was awash with religious zealots who wanted freedom of religion for themselves but were unwilling to extend the right to others. The Puritans fled religious persecution in England only to persecute the Quakers in America. Rhode Island was formed as a sanctuary for the Quakers from Puritan persecution. Maryland, not a New England colony, was formed to give a safe haven for Catholicism. Only Pennsylvania, ostensibly a Quaker colony, seemed to have religious tolerance for all religions, and commercial New York was mostly areligious.

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